So I, like, hid in the basement when like, that Korean death plague was going around and I think I, like, fell asleep. It was like, a really good nap, but I think it might've been on the long side since I guess, like, two weeks have passed. It's like, totally hard to keep track of time when you're in the dark all the time and sleeping, but I
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And he's staring at her. From right behind her. As she's talking on the phone. Yeah. Just standing there.]
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[He doesn't move. He's far enough away from her that she wouldn't be able to "accidently" hit him if she tried. It's one of those long distance stares.]
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[She finally puts the phone down and turns around with her well-practiced vacant stare fixed in place.]
So like, welcome to the family. I'm like, Ini Miney, and like, the boy is named, umm. Hurricane. There's another kid, but it's totally like, a fake, and you can just like, ignore it.
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[He's pretty sure the boy isn't named "Hurricane". He has never heard that word before.]
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Number 23.
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I think someone said that people got boxes on their doorstep. With their things in them.
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That's what you can call me. Number 23.
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. . . Ohhhhhhh.
And, um, Number 23 is so not a name. I can't like, call you that. Does that mean there are like, 23 of you who all look the same so Ed is like, Number 1?
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No. It's just a number.
And Ed is my... Ed is my son.
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Wow. I didn't think you were that old. K, I'll call you like, Mr. Elric, then.
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That's not my name.
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. . . Duh. Times. Different times. . . . Geez, I should've figured that out myself. The lawyer looks like a hobo and that woman is still alive. Huh, I'm still alive. I swear, being Ini kills off at least 100 brain cells a day.
Huh? So that's not like, your last name? Anyway, I can't like, call you a number, so you're gonna be like, Edsdad then.
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And like, remember. We're not sleeping together. You already have kids anyway.
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